New York Times: Australia fears boat people from AsiaHow does the world view Australians following to our treatment of refugees? Here’s the New York Times’s take: “Australia Puts Its Refugee Problem on a Remote Island, Behind Razor Wire”. Super.
Christmas island
Sarah Hanson-Young: ‘Rudd, how does it feel to look in the mirror and see Howard?’
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young blasts the outdated Christmas Island detention centre, the insulting language pollies use for refugees and the fact that John Howard’s ghost still haunts immigration.
No room for refugees in Greg Rudd’s Port Hedland facility
Christmas Island is filling up, but Port Hedland won’t be an option for housing any asylum seeker overflow — unless authorities can do a deal with Kevin Rudd’s brother.
95 kids on Christmas Island and counting
As another 194 asylum seekers head to Christmas Island for health and security checks, concerns are being raised about the number of children already there.
Another boatload stretches Christmas Island’s resources
The custom-built detention centre on Christmas Island is reaching its limits after 194 asylum-seekers, most of them men, were intercepted in a vessel believed to be of Indonesian origin.
Inside the Christmas Island detention centre
Pamela Curr, campaign coordinator for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, took Crikey on a tour of the new Christmas Island detention facility, here are her impressions and photos, writes Sophie Black.
Christmas Island detention centre is not cool
Christmas Island is an extremely harsh and stark environment to detain people seeking asylum while their applications for protection are determined.
